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Dick Holbrooke is in the Balkans cracking his whip, but the U.S. ambassador?s diplomatic colleagues at the U.N. may resent his message: that is, if Kosovo is a failure, it?ll be the international body?s fault. On a whirlwind tour of the troubled province Monday, Holbrooke warned that Kosovo would be "the ultimate test of the U.N.?s capability and potential," reiterating Washington?s message that Kosovo was now the U.N.?s to lose. Although the limited resources available to the international body have plagued its relief, administrative and civilian policing operations, the fundamental obstacle to winning...
...first and only time in my life, the great city I was born and raised in hit the big time. Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously "dying" for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world "another Calcutta." And why were the American media in Calcutta? For the funeral of an 87-year-old Albanian immigrant by the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu...
...Anyone who thinks fun is being curtailed is going to resent that. Finding ways around the system is part of being a student," Sears says. "So undergraduates will continue to try to find ways to do whatever they want...
...police department being part of `Harvard University Police and Security' threatens some officers to the extent that they deeply resent that their business cards and stationary mention even security," Kelling wrote in his report...
College students, and especially Harvard students, are a finicky bunch. We resent rules and scoff at the antiquated notion of in loco parentis, but at the same time demand that our deans and administrators pay careful attention to our needs. We're suspicious of authority but turn to University Hall whenever there's a problem with life at the College. We love complaining but are wary of giving even an inch of recognition to the men and women who make our undergraduate experience what...